


<TITLE>tixFileSelectBox - Create and manipulate Tix FileSelectBox widgets</TITLE>
<Center><H2>tixFileSelectBox - Create and manipulate Tix FileSelectBox widgets</H2></Center><hr>

</pre><H3>SYNOPSIS</H3>
<B>tixFileSelectBox<I> <I>pathName ?<I>options</I></B>?
</pre><H3>STANDARD OPTIONS</H3>
The FileSelectBox widget supports all the standard options of a frame
widget.  See the <B>options(n)</B></I> manual entry for details on the standard
options.
</pre><H3>WIDGET-SPECIFIC OPTIONS</H3>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>browsecmd</B></I>
Class:		<B>browseCmd</B></I>
Switch:		<B>-browsecmd</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
Specifies the command to execute when the user browses through the
files. By default, if the <B>-browsecmd</B></I> is specified, the browse
command will be executed when the user clicks on a filename in the
<I>Files</I></B> listbox.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>command</B></I>
Class:		<B>Command</B></I>
Switch:		<B>-command</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
Specifies the command to execute when the FileSelectBox is
invoked. This command is executed with one parameter : the filename
selected by the user.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>directory</B></I>
Class:		<B>Directory</B></I>
Switch:		<B>-directory</B></I>
Alias:		<B>-dir</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
Specifies the directory to look for files. By default this will be the
current working directory of the program and will be changed as the
user browses through the directories.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>disableCallback</B></I>
Class:		<B>DisableCallback</B></I>
Switch:		<B>-disablecallback</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
A boolean value indicating whether callbacks should be disabled. When
set to true, the TCL command specified by the <B>-command</B></I> option
is not executed when the <B>-value</B></I> of the ExFileSelectBox
widget changes.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>pattern</B></I>
Class:		<B>Pattern</B></I>
Switch:		<B>-pattern</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
Specifies the matching pattern of the file names that should be listed in
the <I>Files</I></B> listbox. For example "*.c" matches all the filenames that
end with ".c". If this option is set to the empty string, the default
pattern "*" will be used.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>value</B></I>
Class:		<B>Value</B></I>
Switch:		<B>-value</B></I>
Alias:		<B>-selection</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
Specifies the name of the filename currently selected by the user.
</UL>
</pre><H3>SUBWIDGETS</H3>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>dirlist</B></I>
Class:		<B>TixScrolledListBox</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
The scrolled listbox that shows the directories.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>filelist</B></I>
Class:		<B>TixScrolledListBox</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
The scrolled listbox that shows the files.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>filter</B></I>
Class:		<B>TixComboBox</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
The ComboBox listbox that shows the filter string.
</UL>
<P>
<pre><code><code><code>
Name:		<B>selection</B></I>
Class:		<B>TixComboBox</B></I>
</code></code></code></pre>
<UL>
The ComboBox listbox that shows the file selection.
</UL>
</pre><HR>
</pre><H3>DESCRIPTION</H3>
<P>
The <B>tixFileSelectBox</B></I> command creates a new window (given by the
<I>pathName</I></B> argument) and makes it into a FileSelectBox widget.
Additional options, described above, may be specified on the command
line or in the option database to configure aspects of the
FileSelectBox such as its cursor and relief.
<P>
The FileSelectBox is similar to the standard Motif(TM) file-selection
box. It is generally used for the user to choose a file. FileSelectBox
stores the files mostly recently selected into a ComboBox widget so
that they can be quickly selected again. The <B>tixFileSelectDialog</B></I>
widget is a combination of the FileSelectBox widget and a dialog
widget.
</pre><H3>WIDGET COMMAND</H3>
<P>
The <B>tixFileSelectBox</B></I> command creates a new Tcl command whose
This command may be used to invoke various operations on the widget.
It has the following general form:
<pre>
<I>pathName option </I></B>?<I>arg arg ...</I></B>?
<P>
</pre>
<I>PathName</I></B> is the name of the command, which is the same as the
<I>arg</I></B>s determine the exact behavior of the command.  The following
commands are possible for FileSelectBox widgets:
<DL>
<DT> <I>pathName <B>cget</B></I> <I>option</I></B>
</I></B>
<DD> Returns the current value of the configuration option given by
<I>option</I></B>. <I>Option</I></B> may have any of the values accepted by the
<B>tixFileSelectBox</B></I> command.
</DL>
<DL>
<DT> <I>pathName <B>configure</B></I> ?<I>option</I></B>? <I>?value option value ...</I></B>?
</I></B>
<DD> Query or modify the configuration options of the widget.  If no
<I>option</I></B> is specified, returns a list describing all of the
available options for <I>pathName</I></B> (see <B>Tk_ConfigureInfo</B></I> for
information on the format of this list).  If <I>option</I></B> is specified
with no <I>value</I></B>, then the command returns a list describing the
one named option (this list will be identical to the corresponding
sublist of the value returned if no <I>option</I></B> is specified).  If
one or more <I>option-value</I></B> pairs are specified, then the command
modifies the given widget option(s) to have the given value(s); in
this case the command returns an empty string.  <I>Option</I></B> may have
any of the values accepted by the <B>tixFileSelectBox</B></I> command.
</DL>
<DL>
<DT> <I>pathName <B>filter</B></I>
</I></B>
<DD> Updates the files listed in the FileSelectBox according to the
filtering pattern sepcified in the <B>filter</B></I> subwidget.
</DL>
<DL>
<DT> <I>pathName <B>invoke</B></I>
</I></B>
<DD> Execute the command specified by the <B>-command</B></I> option with the
filename stored in the <B>selection</B></I> subwidget.
</DL>
<DL>
<DT> <I>pathName <B>subwidget <I> name ?args?</I></B> 
</I></B>
<DD> When no options are given, this command returns the pathname of the
subwidget of the specified name.

When options are given, the widget command of the specified subwidget
will be called with these options.
</DL>
</pre><H3>DEFAULT BINDINGS</H3>
TIX automatically creates class bindings for FileSelectBoxes that give them
the following default behavior:
<UL>
[1] <BR>
Mouse button 1 in the <I>Directory</I></B> listbox will change the filter
string to the selected directory.
</UL>
<UL>
[2] <BR>
Mouse button 1 in the <I>Files</I></B> listbox will change the filename
that appears in the <I>Selection</I></B> entry. It will also trigger the
<B>-browsecmd</B></I> if the option has been specified.
</UL>
<UL>
[3] <BR>
The current directory will be changed by (1) double clicking the
<I>Directory</I></B> listbox or (2) invoking the <I>Filter</I></B> ComboBox.
Please refer to the man page of <B>tixComboBox</B></I> for the default
bindings of the ComboBoxes and how they can be invoked.
</UL>
<UL>
[4] <BR>
The command specified by the option -command will be invoked by (1)
double clicking the <I>Files</I></B> listbox or (2) invoking
<I>Selection</I></B> ComboBox.
</UL>
</pre><H3>KEYWORDS</H3>
tixFileSelectBox, tixComboBox, tixFileSelectDialog, Tix(n), 
<hr><i>Last modified Sun Jan 19 22:34:24 EST 1997 </i> --- 
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